2020

Winter CO2 efflux from sagebrush shrublands distributed across the rain‐to‐snow transition zone. Fellows, A.W., Flerchinger, G.N., Seyfried, G.N., Biederman, J.A.. and K.A. Lohse (2020): JGR Biogeosciences

2020

Resolving Deep Critical Zone Architecture in Complex Volcanic Terrain. Moravec B.G., White A.M., Root R.A, Sanchez A., Olshansky Y., Paras B.K., Carr B., McIntosh J., Pelletier J.D., Rasmussen C., Holbrook W.S., Chorover J. (2020): Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 125(1): e2019JF005189 Cross-CZO

2020 (In Review)

Understanding the effect of fire on vegetation composition and gross primary production in a semi-arid shrubland ecosystem using the Ecosystem Demography (EDv22) model. Pandit, K., Dashti, H., Hudak, A.T., Glenn, N.F., Flores, A.N., and D.J. Shinneman (2020): Biogeosciences Discuss.

2019

Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons. Brewer, Tess E., Emma L. Aronson, Keshav Arogyaswamy, Sharon A. Billings, Jon K. Botthoff, Ashley N. Campbell, Nicholas C. Dove, Dawson Fairbanks, Rachel E. Gallery, Stephen C. Hart, Jason Kaye, Gary King, Geoffrey Logan, Kathleen A. Lohse, Mia R. Maltz, Emilio Mayorga, Caitlin O’Neill, Sarah M. Owens, Aaron Packman, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Alain F. Plante, Daniel D. Richter, Whendee L. Silver, Wendy H. Yang, Noah Fierer (2019): mBio Oct 2019, 10 (5) e01318-19 Cross-CZO National

2019

Empirical methods for remote sensing of nitrogen in drylands may lead to unreliable interpretation of ecosystem function. Dashti, H., Glenn, N.F., Ustin, S., Mitchell, J.J., Qi, Y., Ilangakoon, N.T., Flores, A.N., Silvan-Cardenas, J., Zhao, K., Spaete, L.P., and M.A. de Graaff (2019): IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

2019

Regional scale dryland vegetation classification with an integrated lidar-hyperspectral approach. Dashti, H., Poley, A., Glenn, N.F., Ilangakoon, N., Spaete, L., Roberts, D., Enterkine, J., Flores, A.N., Ustin, S.L., and J.J. Mitchell (2019): Remote Sensing

2019

Controls on gross production in an aspen-sagebrush vegetation mosaic. Fellows, A., Flerchinger, G., Seyfried, M., Lohse, K.A., Patton, N. R. (2019): Ecohydrology 12:e2046

2019

Water and carbon fluxes along an elevational gradient in a sagebrush ecosystem. Flerchinger, G.N., Fellows, A.W., Seyfried, M.S., Clark, P.E., and K.A. Lohse (2019): Ecosystems

2019

Vegetation and precipitation shifts interact to alter organic and inorganic carbon storage in desert soils. Huber, D.P., Lohse, K.A., Commendador, A., Joy, S., Finney, B., Aho, K., and M. Germino (2019): Ecosphere 10( 3):e02655

2019

Topographic controls on soil organic carbon on soil-mantled landscapes. Patton, N.P., Lohse, K.A., Seyfried, M., S. Godsey, and S. Parsons (2019): Scientific Reports 9: 6390

2019

Lithology and coarse fraction adjusted bulk density estimates for determining total organic carbon stocks in dryland soils. Patton, N.R., Lohse, K.A., Seyfried, M.S., Will, R., and S. Benner (2019): Geoderma 337: 844-852

2019

Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of water flowpaths controls dissolved organic carbon sourcing in a snow-dominated, headwater catchment. Radke, A. G, Godsey, S. E., Lohse, K. A., McCorkle, E., Perdrial, J., Seyfried, M. S., Holbrook, W.S. (2019): Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7, 46

2019

Modeling phenological controls on carbon dynamics in dryland sagebrush ecosystems. Renwick, K., Fellows, A., Flerchinger, G., Lohse, K., Clark, P.E., Smith W.K., Emmett, K., and B. Poulter (2019): Agricultural and Forest Meterology Volume 274: 15, 85-94

2019

Summer-time carbon and water fluxes in sagebrush ecosystems spanning rain-to-snow dominated precipitation regimes. Sharma, H., Reinhardt, K., Lohse, K.A., and K. Aho (2019): Rangeland Ecology and Management

2019

Examining Interactions Between and Among Predictors of Net Ecosystem Exchange: A Machine Learning Approach in a Semi-arid Landscape. Zhou, Q., Fellows, A., Flerchinger, G.N., and A.N. Flores (2019): Scientific Reports 9:2222

2018

Rapid recovery of mesic mountain big sagebrush gross production and respiration following prescribed fire. Fellows, A., Flerchinger, G., Seyfried, M.S., and Lohse, K.A (2018): Ecosystems

2018

Geomorphic influences on the distribution and accumulation of pyrogenic carbon (PyC) following a low severity wildfire in northern New Mexico. Galanter, A., Cadol, D., and K.A. Lohse (2018): Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 43: 2207–2218 Cross-CZO National

2018

Eleven years of mountain weather, snow, soil moisture and streamflow data from the rain–snow transition zone – the Johnston Draw catchment, Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed and Critical Zone Observatory, USA. Godsey, S. E., Marks, D., Kormos, P. R., Seyfried, M. S., Enslin, C. L., Winstral, A. H., McNamara, J. P., and Link, T. E. (2018): Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 1207-1216

2018

Dynamic process connectivity explains ecohydrologic responses to rainfall pulses and drought. Goodwell, A.E., Kumar, P., Fellows, A.W., and Flerchinger, G.N. (2018): PNAS 115 (37) E8604-E8613 Cross-CZO

2018

Data paper: 31 Years of Spatially Distributed Air Temperature, Humidity, Precipitation Amount and Precipitation Phase From Reynolds Critical Zone Observatory. Kormos, P. R., Marks, D. G., Seyfried, M. S., Havens, S. C., Hedrick, A., Lohse, K. A., Sandusky, M., Kahl, A. and Garen, D. (2018): ESSD. 10, 1197-1205

2018 (In Review)

Critical zone science informs landscape management through quantification of slow and often elusive (episodic) constraints on ecosystem services. Lohse, K.A., Commendador, A., Stalder, S., Glossner, K., Macek, C., and R. MacNeille (2018): Earth's Future Cross-CZO National

2018

Fire, flood, and drought—Extreme climate events alter flow paths and stream chemistry. Murphy, S.F., McCleskey, R.B., Martin, D.A., Writer, J.H., and Ebel, B.A. (2018): Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123 Cross-CZO

2018

Predicting soil thickness on soil mantled hillslopes. Patton, N.P., Lohse, K.A., S.E. Godsey, Crosby, B.T., and Seyfried, M. (2018): Nature Communications 9: 3329

2018

A net ecosystem carbon budget for snow dominated forested headwater catchments: linking water and carbon fluxes to critical zone carbon storage. Perdrial J., Brooks P.D., Swetnam T., Lohse K.A., Rasmussen C., Litvak M., Harpold A.A., Zapata-Rios X., Broxton P., Mitra B., Meixner M., Condon K., Huckle D., Stielstra C., Vázquez-Ortega A., Lybrand R., Holleran M., Orem C., Pelletier J., Chorover J. (2018): Biogeochemistry 138{3): 225–243 Cross-CZO

2018

Ideas and perspectives: Strengthening the biogeosciences in environmental research networks. Richter, D.D., S.A. Billings, P.M. Groffman, E.F. Kelly, K.A. Lohse, W.H. McDowell, T.S. White, S. Anderson, D.D. Baldocchi, S. Banwart, S. Brantley, J.J. Braun, Z.S. Brecheisen, C.W. Cook, H.E. Hartnett, S.E. Hobbie, J. Gaillardet, E. Jobbagy, H.F. Jungkunst, C.E. Kazanski, J. Krishnaswamy, D. Markewitz, K. O’Neill, C.S. Riebe, P. Schroeder, C. Siebe, W.L. Silver, A. Thompson, A. Verhoef, G. Zhang (2018): Biogeosciences 15: 4815-4832 Cross-CZO National

2018 (In Review)

Relative Abundance of Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria in Biological Soil Crusts in Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystems of the Intermountain West US. Schwabedissen, S.G., Sheridan, P.P, Aho, K.A., Magnuson, K.A. (2018): FEMS Microbial Ecology

2018

Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed and Critical Zone Observatory. Seyfried, M. S., Lohse, K. A., Marks, D., Flerchinger, G. N., Pierson, F., Holbrook, S. (2018): Vadoze Zone Journal 17:180129

2017

Growing new generations of critical zone scientists. Wymore, Adam S., Nicole R. West, Kate Maher, Pamela L. Sullivan, Adrian Harpold, Diana Karwan, Jill A. Marshall, Julia Perdrial, Daniella M. Rempe and Lin Ma (2017): Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42 (14): 2498-2502 Cross-CZO National

2017

Variation in Biological Soil Crust Bacterial Abundance and Diversity as a Function of Climate in Cold Steppe Ecosystems in the Intermountain West, USA. Blay, E.S., Schwabedissen, S.G., Magnuson, T.S., Aho, K., Sheridan, P.P., and K.A. Lohse (2017): Microbial Ecology 74 (3): 691–700

2017

Designing a network of critical zone observatories to explore the living skin of the terrestrial Earth. Brantley, S.L., McDowell, W.H., Dietrich, W.E., White, T.S., Kumar, P., Anderson, S., Chorover, J., Lohse, K.A., Bales, R.C., Richter, D., Grant, G., and Gaillardet, J. (2017): Earth Surface Dynamics, 5, 841–860 Cross-CZO National

2017

Reviews and syntheses: on the roles trees play in building and plumbing the critical zone. Brantley, Susan L., David M. Eissenstat, Jill A. Marshall, Sarah E. Godsey, Zsuzsanna Balogh-Brunstad, Diana L. Karwan, Shirley A. Papuga, Joshua Roering, Todd E. Dawson, Jaivime Evaristo, Oliver Chadwick, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, Kathleen C. Weathers (2017): Biogeosciences, 14, 5115-5142 Cross-CZO National

2017

Regional sensitivities of seasonal snowpack to elevation, aspect, and vegetation cover in western North America. Christopher J. Tennant, Adrian A. Harpold, Kathleen Ann Lohse, Sarah E. Godsey, Benjamin T. Crosby, Laurel G. Larsen, Paul D. Brooks, Robert W. Van Kirk, Nancy F. Glenn (2017): Water Resources Research 53 Cross-CZO National

2017

Controls on solute concentration-discharge relationships revealed by simultaneous hydrochemistry observations of hillslope runoff and stream flow: The importance of critical zone structure. Kim, Hyojin, William E. Dietrich, Benjamin M. Thurnhoffer, Jim K. B. Bishop, and Inez Y. Fung (2017): Water Resources Research, 53:1424-1443 Cross-CZO

2017

Meteorological, snow, streamflow, topographic, and vegetation height data from four western juniper-dominated experimental catchments in southwestern Idaho, USA. Kormos, P.R., Marks, D.G., Pierson, F.B., Williams, C.J., Hardegree, S.P., Boehm, A.R., Havens, S.C., Hedrick, A., Cram, Z.K., and T.J. Svejcar (2017): Earth System Science Data

2017

Geochemical evolution of the Critical Zone across variable time scales informs concentration-discharge relationships: Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory. McIntosh J.C., Schaumberg C., Perdrial J., Harpold A., Vázquez-Ortega A., Rasmussen C., Vinson D., Zapata-Rios X., Brooks P.D., Meixner T., Pelletier J., Derry L., Chorover J. (2017): Water Resources Research 53(5): 4169–4196 Cross-CZO National

2017

Nitrogenase Activity by Biological Soil Crusts in Cold Sagebrush Steppe Ecosystems. Schwabedissen, S.G., Lohse, K.A., Reed, S.C., Aho, K.A., T.S. Magnuson (2017): Biogeochemistry 134 (1–2): 57–76

2017

On the rocks: quantifying storage of inorganic soil carbon on gravels and determining pedon-scale variability. Stanbery, C.J., Pierce, J.L., Benner, S.G., and K. Lohse (2017): Catena 157: 436-442

2016

Controls on ecohydrologic properties in desert ecosystems: Differences in soil age and volcanic morphology. Beal, L., Huber, D., Godsey, S., Kobs-Nawotniak, S., and K. Lohse (2016): Geoderma

2016

Controls on ecohydrologic properties in desert ecosystems: Differences in soil age and volcanic morphology. Beal, L., Huber, D., Godsey, S., Kobs-Nawotniak, S., and K.A. Lohse (2016): Geoderma 271: 32–41

2016

Assessment of the timing of daily peak streamflow in a snow dominated watershed. Chen, X., Kumar, M., Wang, R., Winstral, A., and D. Marks (2016): Journal of Hydrometeorology 17: 2225-2244 Cross-CZO

2016

Postfire grazing management effects on mesic sagebrush-steppe vegetation: spring grazing. Clark, P.E., Williams, C.J., Pierson, F.B., and S.P. Hardegree (2016): Journal of Arid Environments

2016

Hydrologic response and recovery to prescribed fire and vegetation removal in a small rangeland catchment. Flerchinger, G.N., Seyfried, M.S., and S.P. Hardegree (2016): Ecohydrology

2016

Temporal Variability in Microclimatic Conditions for Grass Germination and Emergence in the Sagebrush Steppe. Hardegree, S.P., Sheley, R.L., Duke, S.E., James, J.J., Boehm, A.R., and G.N. Flerchinger (2016): Rangeland Ecology & Management

2016

Independent evaluation of the SNODAS snow depth product using regional-scale lidar-derived measurements. Hedrick, A., Marshall, H.P., Winstral, A., Elder, K., Yueh, S., and D. Cline (2016): The Cryosphere

2016

Saprolite genesis in complex terrain: hydrologic, lithologic, biologic, and microclimatic controls on aspect asymmetry within the critical zone. Klos, P.Z., Link, T., Seyfried, M., Patton, N., Lohse, K., Holbrook, W.S., Heinse, R., Durrett, W., E. Leonard (2016): Geomorphology

2016

Sensible Heat Balance Estimates of Transient Soil Ice Contents. Kojima, Y., Heitman, J.L., Flerchinger, G.N., Ren, T., and R. Horton (2016): Vadose Zone Journal

2016

Juniper encroachment impacts on catchment scale water availability in snow dominated sagebrush steppe systems. Kormos, P., Marks, D., Pierson, F., Williams, J., Flerchinger, G., Havens, S., Hendrick, A., Bates, J., Svejcar, A., and A. Winstral (2016): Rangeland Ecology & Management

2016

Trends and sensitivities of low streamflow extremes to discharge timing and magnitude in Pacific Northwest mountain streams. Kormos, P.R., Luce, C.H., Wenger, S.J., and W.R. Berghuijs (2016): Water Resources Research

2016

Ecosystem Water Availability in Juniper versus Sagebrush Snow-Dominated Rangelands. Kormos, P.R., Marks, D., Pierson, F.B., Williams, C.J., Hardegree, S.P., Havens, S., Hedrick, A., Bates, J., and T. Svejar (2016): Rangeland Ecology & Management

2016

Experimental Geomicrobiology: From Field to Laboratory. Magnuson, T.S., and R.N. Ledbetter (2016): Manual of Environmental Microbiology (4th Ed.). American Society for Microbiology Press.

2016

Spatiotemporal soil and saprolite moisture dynamics across a semi-arid woody plant gradient. Niemeyer, R.J., Heinse, R., Link, T.E., Seyfried, M.S., Klos, Z.P., Williams, C.J., and T. Nielson (2016): Journal of Hydrology

2016

Surface water input from snowmelt and rain throughfall in western juniper: potential impacts of climate change as shifts in semi-arid vegetation. Niemeyer, R.J., Link, T., Seyfried, M., and G. Flerchinger (2016): Hydrological Processes

2016

The Airborne Snow Observatory: fusion of scanning lidar, imaging spectrometer, and physically-based modeling for mapping snow water equivalent and snow albedo. Painter, T., Berisford, D., Boardman, J., Bormann, K., Deems, J., Gehrke, F., Hedrick, A., Joyce, M., Laidlaw, R., Marks, D., Mattmann, C., Mcgurk, B., Ramirez, P., Richardson, M., Skiles, S.M., Seidel, F., and A. Winstral (2016): Remote Sensing of Environment

2016

The cold rain-on-snow event of June 2013 in the Canadian Rockies -characteristics and diagnosis. Pomeroy, J., Fang, X., and D. Marks (2016): Hydrological Processes

2016

Simulating maize production, water and surface energy balance, and canopy temperature under full and deficit irrigation. Qi, Z., Ma, L., Bausch, W.C., Trout, T.J., Ahuja, L.R., Flerchinger, G.N., and Q.X. Fang (2016): Transactions of ASABE

2016

Soil temperature variability in complex terrain measured using distributed fiber-optic temperature sensing. Seyfried, M., Link, T., and D. Marks (2016): Vadose Zone Journal

2016

Soil Temperature Variability in Complex Terrain MeasuredUsing Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing. Seyfried, M., Link, T., Marks, D. and Murdock, M. (2016): Vadose Zone Journal 15 (6): vzj2015.09.0128

2016

Simulated water budget in a forested watershed within Priest River Experimental Forest, northern Idaho, USA. Wei, L., Link, T.E., Hudak, A.T., Marshall, J.D., Kavanagh, K.L., Abatzoglou, J.T., Zhou, H., Pangle, R.E., G.N. Flerchinger (2016): Hydrological Processes

2016

Ecohydrologic response and recovery of a semi-arid shrubland over a five year period following burning. Williams, C.J., Pierson, F.B., Kormos, P.R., Al-Hamdan, O.Z., Hardegree, S.P., and P.E. Clark (2016): Catena

2015

Hydrological partitioning in the critical zone: Recent advances and opportunities for developing transferable understanding of water cycle dynamics. Brooks P.D., Chorover J., Fan Y., Godsey S.E., Maxwell R.M., McNamara J.P., and Tague C. (2015): Water Resources Research 51 (9): 6973-6987 Cross-CZO

2015

A unified approach to hydrologic modeling: Part 2 Comparison of alternative process representations. Clark, M., Nijssen, B., Lundquist, J., Kavetski, D., Rupp, D., Gutmann, E., Wood, A., Gochis, D., Rasmussen, R., Tarboton, D., Mahat, V., Flerchinger, G., and D. Marks (2015): Water Resources Research

2015

Simulation of long-term soil water dynamics at Reynolds Creek, Idaho: implications for rangeland productivity. Finzel, J.A., Seyfried, M.S., Weltz, M.A., and K. Launchbaugh (2015): Ecohydrology

2015

Modeling Temperature and Humidity Profiles withing Forest Canopies. Flerchinger, G., Reba, M., Link, T., and D. Marks (2015): Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

2015

A field comparison of multiple techniques to quantify groundwater–surface-water interactions. González-Pinzón, R., Ward, A., Hatch, C., Wlostowski, A., Singha, K., Gooseff, M., Haggerty, R., Harvey, J., Cirpka, O., and Brock, J. (2015): Freshwater Science, 34(1) Cross-CZO

2015

Laser vision: lidar as a transformative tool to advance critical zone science. Harpold, A. A., Marshall, J. A., Lyon, S. W., Barnhart, T. B., Fisher, B. A., Donovan, M., Brubaker, K. M., Crosby, C. J., Glenn, N. F., Glennie, C. L., Kirchner, P. B., Lam, N., Mankoff, K. D., McCreight, J. L., Molotch, N. P., Musselman, K. N., Pelletier, J., Russo, T., Sangireddy, H., Sjöberg, Y., Swetnam, T., and West, N. (2015): Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 2881-2897 Cross-CZO National

2015 (In Review)

Variable Groundwater Contributions Influence Nutrient Cycling in Montane Headwater Catchments. Harpold, A., Brooks, P., Perdrial, J., Lohse, K., McIntosh, J., Meixner, T., Zapata-Rios, X., Vazquez-Ortega, A., and J. Chorover (2015): Water Resources Research

2015

Bedrock infiltration estimates from a catchment in the mountain rain-snow transition zone. Kormos, P., McNamara, J., Seyfried, M., Marshall, H., Marks, D., and A. Flores (2015): Journal of Hydrology

2015

Aboveground Biomass Estimates of Sagebrush Using Terrestrial and Airborne LiDAR Data in a Dryland Ecosystem. Li, A., Glenn, N.F., Olsoy, P.J., Mitchell, J.J., and R. Shrestha (2015): Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

2015

Reynolds Creek Critical Zone Observatory Annual Report 2015. Lohse, K. (2015): Reynolds Creek CZO, University of Idaho

2015

Combining airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data across local sites for upscaling shrubland structural information: lessons for HyspIRI . Mitchell, J., Spaete, L., Shrestha, R., and N. Glenn (2015): Remote Sensing of Environment

2015

Climate and landscape as drivers of carbon storage in forested headwater catchments: Insights from a complete C budget. Perdrial, J., Brooks, P., Swetnam, T., Lohse, K., Rasmussen, C., Litvak, M., Harpold, A., Zapata-Rios, X., Broxton, P., Mitra, B., Meixner, T., Condon, K., Huckle, D., Stielstra, C., Vazquez-Ortega, A., Lybrand, R., Holleran, M., Orem, C., Pelletier, J., and J. Chorover (2015): Global Change Biology

2015

Water resources: Research network to track alpine water. Pomeroy, J., Bernhardt, M., and D. Marks (2015): Nature Correspondence

2015

Snowpack sensitivity to perturbed climate changes in alpine catchments. Rasouli, K., Pomeroy, J., and D. Marks (2015): Hydrological Processes

2015

Climatic and landscape influences on soil moisture are primary determinants of soil carbon fluxes in seasonally snow-covered forest ecosystems. Stielstra C.M., Lohse K.A., Chorover J., McIntosh J.C., Barron-Gafford G.A., Perdrial J.N., Litvak M., Barnard H.R., Brooks P.D. (2015): Biogeochemistry 123(3): 447–465 Cross-CZO

2015

Climatic, Landscape, and Edaphic Controls on Soil Carbon Fluxes in Seasonally Snow Covered Forest Ecosystems. Stielstra, C., Lohse, K., Chorover, J., McIntosh, J., Barron-Gafford, G., Perdrial, J., Litvak, M., Barnard, H., and P. Brooks (2015): Biogeochemistry

2015

A simple framework for assessing the sensitivity of mountain watersheds to snowpack loss. Tennant, C.J., Crosby, B.T., Godsey, S.E., Van Kirk, R.W., and D.R. Derryberry (2015): Geophys. Res. Lett.

2015

Chapter 2 – The Role of Critical Zone Observatories in Critical Zone Science. White T., Brantley S., Banwart S., Chorover J., Dietrich W., Derry L., Lohse K., Anderson S., Aufdendkampe A., Bales R., Kumar P., Richter D., McDowell B. (2015): Developments in Earth Surface Processes 19: 15–78 Cross-CZO National

2014

Quantitative understating of daily streamflow peak timing and its seasonal variations in a snow dominated watershed. Chen, X., M. Kumar, R. Wang, A. Winstral and D. Marks (2014): Water Resources Research

2014

Spatial patterns of vegetation, soils and microtopography from terrestrial laser scanning on two semi-arid hillslopes of contrasting lithology. Harman C.J., Lohse K.A., Troch P.A., Sivapalan M. (2014): Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 119(2): 163-180 Cross-CZO

2014

Response of three soil water sensors to variable solution electrical conductivity in different soils. Kargas, G., Kerkides, P., and M. Seyfried (2014): Vadose Zone Journal

2014

Analytical model for flow duration curves in seasonally dry climates. Müller, M.F., Dralle, D.N., and Thompson, S.E. (2014): Water Resources Research 50(7): 5510-5531. Cross-CZO

2014

Bacterial composition of soils in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests exposed to different wildfire burn severity. Weber C.F., Lockhart J.S., Charaska E., Aho K., Lohse K.A. (2014): Soil Biology and Biochemistry 69: 242-250 Cross-CZO